Share in google reader update#

Still, it’s at least nice to see Google keeping the RSS fire alive in some fashion. Many users (including me, until recently) either don’t use or don’t understand three of Google Reader’s features the ability to 'Star,' 'Share,' and 'Like' an item. That doesn’t mean Google Reader is easy to understand, though. The Chrome follow button is currently a mobile-only feature (iOS and desktop versions are coming), which will surely disappoint some Google Reader power users. One reader, Google Reader, stands head and shoulders above other readers in terms of popularity. Now, when you share an article in Google Reader a. It’s not clear how many people already have access to the new feature by default, but you can enable it yourself by entering chrome://flags in your address bar and turning it on under web feed, Felt writes. Enter the URL to your public Shared items page from Google Reader and press import. The Follow button aggregates content from an RSS feed into cards. The feature isn’t out yet on iOS, so I’m not able to check it out on my phone, but Felt shared some screenshots of what it looks like on Android so you can get an idea. Sites you’re following will appear in a tab called “following,” which sits along Google’s “for you” tab of recommended articles.

You can follow a site through the browser’s three-dot menu to subscribe to its RSS feed and have it update in your Chrome app. The RSS tracking feature was limited to the experimental Canary versions of Chrome on Android, but today the company has started enabling it on stable versions of the browser, according to Adrienne Porter Felt, a director of engineering on Chrome. Google Reader is still defunct, but its spirit lives on in a “follow button” for Chrome that Google first started experimenting with in May.

Share in google reader update#